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N. NEWMAN.

RAILWAY GATE. N0. 452,190. Patented May 12,1891.

Evezzi n UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON NEIVMAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF T\VO-THIRDS TO GEORGE A. SANDERS AND SAMUEL J. VVILLETT, OF SAME PLACE.

RAI LWAY-GAT E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,190, dated May 12, 1891.

Application filed January 9, 1891. Serial No- 37'7,254. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: serves as a guide to direct the gate in a straight Be it known that I, NELSON NEWMAN, of line when opened or closed. Springfield, county of Sanganiomand State of On the outer side of each of the boxes B is Illinois, have invented a new and useful Imformed a semi-cylindrical offset or extension 5 provement in Railway-Gates; andI do hereby R,in which is arranged a pulley S, journaled declare that the following is a full, clear, and on a shaft T. One of the said shafts T has a exact description of the invention, which will crank U, and the pulleys are each provided enable others skilled in the art to which it. with two peripheral grooves VFW. A pulley appertains to make and use it, reference be-f X is arranged on the inner side of each box :0 ing had to the accompanying drawings, formand mounted on a bracket Y.

ing a part thereof. In one of the grooves of each pulley S is se- My invention relates to an improvement in cured one end of a cord A, which then passes 5 railway-gates; and it consisisin the peculiar around the companion pulley X, and is atconstruction and combination of devices, that tached to one of the slats forming the extreme I5 will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and inner end of the gate and at a point a suffiparticularly pointed out in the claims. cient distance below the center of the gate.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure l is A cord B has one end secured in the remaina perspective View of my improved railwaying groove of each pulley S, and the other end gate, showing the same expanded. Fig. 2 is secured to the slatnext the inner end of the 20 an elevation,with the box partly broken away proximate gate at a point above the pivoted to disclose the interior mechanism. Fig. 8 is center. From this construction it will be una horizontal section through the box above derstood that by turning the pulley S in one the operating mechanism therein. direction to'tighten the cord A the gate will On opposite sides of the railway-track A at be-opened, and that by turning the pulley in 25 a railway-crossing are erected boxes B, from the reverse direction to tighten the cord I3 the upper ends of which project standards M. the gate will be shut.

Sheaves C are mounted in the upper ends of In order to adapt the pair of gates to be the said standards. Opposite each standard operated simultaneously, I provide pulleys M is a post D,and the upper ends of the posts O, which are secured to the shafts T, and an 3 and standards are connected togetherin pairs endless cord D connects the said pulleys and by guide rods or wires E. is guided by the pulleys O.

The gates F, which are of the lazy-tongs Having thus described my invention, I variety, are composed each of a series of claimcrossed slats pivoted together in pairs at their 1. The gate consisting of the pivoted slats,

35 ends and centers. The inner sides of the in combination with the box in which one end gates enter openings G in the inner sides of of the gate is pivoted, the pulley S and guidethe boxes, and are pivoted to blocks 11, sepulley X, arranged in opposite sides of the cured to the boxes, as shown. The free ends box, said pulley S having the crank, and the of the gates are adapted to close against the cords A B connecting the pulley S and the 4 posts D, and when the gates are opened they slats of the gate, one of said cords being are almost entirely confined in the boxes. guided 011 the pulley X, substantially as and The pair of slats at the free end of each gate for the purpose specified. 9 5 are pivoted 1 at their upper ends between a 2. In combination with the pair of lazypair of standard-plates I, as at K, and the tongs gates and the independent mechanism 45 pivot L at the lower ends of said end pair of for operating them, the pulleys and endless slats travels in vertical slots M in the said cord connecting the said mechanism, substand and plates. The latter have a supstantially as described. porting-rollerNjournaledbetweentheirlower In testimony that I claim the foregoing I ends, which roller serves to support the free append my signature.

5 end of the gate. Avertical bar 0 rises from NELSON NEIVMAN.

one of the standard-plates, and at the upper Witnesses: end of the said bar is journaled a roller P, WM. K. BoWERs, which travels on the guide rod or wire E and DORA ADAMS. 

